Admissions Survey 2006

Between May 25 and June 16, 2006, ODA administered a new version of the previous
Admissions Survey. This time two slightly different versions of the questionnaire were
developed for both admitted non-confirmed and
confirmed students.
Both non-residents and
residents in each group were sampled in order to gather comparative data on their views of
CU-Boulder and their reasons for either not attending, or attending CU-Boulder. Unlike
the two previous surveys, parents were not invited to respond for their students if they
received the email invitation.

A random sample of 6000 admitted students, consisting of 2000 confirmed and 4000 non-confirmed
students with equal numbers of residents and non-residents in each group, was emailed the web-based
questionnaire. Approximately 5% of the sample had non-deliverable emails. A total of
1153 responded to the survey, for an overall adjusted response rate of 20% across all sub-groups.
The confirmed students were more likely (31%) to respond than the non-confirmed
students (15%), and within each of these groups, non-residents (34% of confirmed, 15% non-
confirmed) were more likely to respond than residents (28%, 14%).

Because the 2006 questionnaire items and sampling method were substantially different
than in the past two years, analyses of the results did not include a comparison to
previous years' results.